From Mendocino to San Diego, beachgoers have been alarmed recently by large numbers of dead seabirds appearing on California’s beaches. The mass mortality event seems to be primarily impacting ...

Long-term research in California shows that many bird populations increase after wildfires and can remain more abundant in burned areas for decades, especially following moderate fires. Although some ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most common birds seen near feeders in California using data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch. Birds are ranked by the percent of sites visited ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 has been confirmed in wild birds in Central California counties, adding to detections previously reported in the San Francisco Bay Area. Federal ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, an ethnobotanist with the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of the study, first noticed that ...